{"id":61360,"date":"2019-05-08T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=61360"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:00:28","slug":"mysteries-on-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/mysteries-on-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries on the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/construction-law.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/construction-law-640x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/construction-law-640x311.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/construction-law-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/construction-law-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/construction-law-1200x582.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/construction-law.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently got a Kindle, and I spent part of yesteday evening stocking it with cheap public-domain books. Some of the collections I considered were category &#8220;best sellers,&#8221; but not the categories I would have expected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/architecture-project-management.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/architecture-project-management-640x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/architecture-project-management-640x280.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/architecture-project-management-768x335.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/architecture-project-management-1024x447.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/architecture-project-management-1200x524.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/architecture-project-management.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quality of the electronic editions varies greatly. In general, the large collections are worth the dollar or two they cost, but not always. Some are highly readable and easily navigable, but others are little more than unedited OCR text. Also, omnibus collections often dispense with the original illustrations. The Pre-Raphaelitish plates and drawings that are part of the charm of Andrew Lang&#8217;s colorful books are missing from the construction law best seller.<\/p>\n<p>Further details about the Amazon, from a 1929 study<span id='easy-footnote-1-61360' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/mysteries-on-the-amazon\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-61360' title='Don McLean &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SBsC8uQ-tgs&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;replicated the findings&lt;\/a&gt; in 1972.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KUeUn-Xgx9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a Kindle, and I spent part of yesteday evening stocking it with cheap public-domain books. Some of the collections I considered were category &#8220;best sellers,&#8221; but not the categories I would have expected. The quality of the electronic editions varies greatly. In general, the large collections are worth the dollar or two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/mysteries-on-the-amazon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mysteries on the Amazon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-fXG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61368,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61360\/revisions\/61368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}